Our people

Meet the team at Fastmarkets

With more than 500 team members worldwide, we have price reporters on the ground, as well as analysts and editorial teams who are researching and reporting on shifting market dynamics for the commodity markets we serve.

Our team provides price data for thousands of proprietary prices, as well as forecasts, market intelligence and insights-rich events for market participants to network, trade and discuss the critical forces driving change.

Below you can read more about each of the members of our senior leadership team, or browse some of the recent insights and analyses from our talented group of price reporters, analysts and editorial teams working across the four markets we serve.

We believe in celebrating and enriching the diversity and wellbeing of our people. This drives more inclusive behavior, perspectives and better business outcomes.
Steve D’Souza, chief strategy and product officer, and chair of Fastmarkets’ Diversity & Inclusion group
Meet the leadership team

Kulwant Bhatia 

Chief technology officer

Steve D’Souza

Chief strategy and product officer 

Louise Noone

Chief human resources officer

Katie Brown

General counsel

Perrine Faye

Editorial director 

Catherine Oates

Managing director, events

Toby Burton

Chief financial officer

Daniel Klein

Executive vice president, analytics

Person, Light, Traffic Light

Rakhi Williams

Chief operating officer

Raju Daswani

Fastmarkets CEO

James Mansfield

Chief revenue officer

Justin Wolfe

Interim general counsel 

The board
Fastmarkets CEO
Chief financial and operating officer
Partner, Astorg
Director, Astorg
Fastmarkets non-executive board director
Investment manager, Astorg
Insights from our price reporters, analysts and editorial teams

Browse our insights and analysis across the four markets we serve from our experts in agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new generation energy

CMOC expects its growth rate of cobalt supply to gradually ease in the second half of 2024, the company said on August 23. Market participants, however, were divided in their response to the announcement, with some expecting the output reduction to alleviate the current imbalance between supply and demand in parts of the market.

Spodumene prices rose on Wednesday September 11 after reports of a potential production suspension in China’s Jiangxi province drove up lithium carbonate futures prices on China’s Guangzhou Futures Exchange (GFEX).

Trade, tariffs and protectionist measures were all topics of discussion during the US presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on Tuesday September 10.

Southern Pine lumber has experienced historically low price volatility in 2024, with a narrow trading range and conservative trading strategies expected to continue through the year.

Read Fastmarkets’ monthly battery raw materials market update for September 2024, focusing on raw materials including lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and more

Colombian steelmakers conditioned the viability of building the country’s first flat steel plant on the adoption of trade defense measures against imports, the companies said on Friday, September 6.

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